• I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
    1401·
    2 months ago

    Someone told me they saw people on Facebook complaining that the Olympics opening ceremony was too diverse. I was like, did they want to have an Olympics with all other countries banned?? That already exists, and it’s called national championships. Otherwise, a sports competition that includes the entire world is going to include people from the entire world. I don’t understand what they wanted…an Olympics in Paris with only White USA??

    • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.worldEnglish
      261·
      2 months ago

      Yeah I got a older co worker who behaves in a way that strikes me as very undiagnosed autistic of his generation. He went on a whole rant about how the Olympics should be like a family reunion where you have to mask your less socially acceptable behaviours and cannot just be yourself because you shouldn’t always be yourself around your family for the sake of overall unity…

      And yeah… I was just thinking how sad that was. Like bro. We’ve since realized how toxic that is to people and our generation is trying to undo that expectation and damage. The neurotypical flattening of self expression always was a tyranny, you just normalized it.

    • Emmie@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      It’s a bit exhausting that everyone is so focused on the people not worth mentioning all the time. Not only we drown in lots of trash from these Facebook people but then others spread it everywhere else too. I hoped it would be a positive post for a change

  • Seraph@fedia.io
    571·
    2 months ago

    If there wasn’t so many prophylactics in the Olympic Village they would be making a new diverse race of super-humans!

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      393·
      2 months ago

      I’m glad they provide them every year though. Lots of young, fit, attractive people means lots of fucking.

      I would be curious to know how many pregnancies result from the Olympics every time anyway though. At least some of the people won’t use protection most likely.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    392·
    2 months ago

    Hillbillies don’t watch the Olympics.

    1. No monster trucks
    2. No bud light
    3. No tailgaters
    4. Loud cars missing
    5. Very few tough-guy sports.

    Like, sure, we need to move the fencing to a chariot race, and make jousting and full contact gladiatorial combat a thing. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

    Then we’ll get the hicks watching. Just dont call it SCA as that’s a nerd thing.

    • ReeferPirate@lemy.lolEnglish
      61·
      2 months ago

      Task failed successfully. Among the first things broadcast to space was Hitler’s speech opening the '36 olympics

  • humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    IDK I watch only the Eskimo-Indian Olympics, it’s far more interesting than the regular.

    Fencing? Phew, how about seal skinning?

  • BCX@dormi.zoneEnglish
    39·
    2 months ago

    It’s just sports lovers watching sports, don’t overthink it.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      152·
      2 months ago

      As I said to someone else- Hitler was not happy about Jesse Owens winning gold and racists are racists.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
        23·
        2 months ago

        Yes, they are, and unlike Germany our racists didn’t volunteer to get killed enmass on the Eastern Front. They just got old and bitter, and passed it on to their children as best they could.

        I think it’s also rather important in the context of racial history to quote Jesse Owens directly on the matter of national leaders.

        “Hitler didn’t snub me- it was [Roosevelt] who snubbed me.”

        And all the other 18 African-Americans who earned golf medals, Roosevelt did not congratulate a single one, but did offer congratulations to the white athletes.

        Of course, that context might simply have been Jesse not realizing that Hitler’s “congratulatory” wave to him, a Nazi salute, after some of his victories probably meant something far different to Jesse than it meant to Hitler, but it doesn’t change the fact that we don’t need to compare modern American racists’ Olympic reactions to Hitler’s.

        We have, and have had always had, plenty of our own to compare.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        111·
        2 months ago

        Her opponent never claimed she was punched harder than she’d ever been punched before, so the story is a lie anyway.

        • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          2 months ago

          If it was a complete fabrication, it wouldn’t have made headlines across so many news outlets. “Lie” is a strong word.

          None of them specifically bring up being transgender; but a previous boxing association banned her for having too much testosterone. I am curious if that means the testosterone was either natural (meaning we can’t effectively test gender for the sport, and competing by sex is pointless) or if it was a simple case of doping, injecting it manually. Neither feels like a fun conclusion.

          EDIT: I’ll walk myself back on this a bit. Someone else pointed out to me that this other boxing association is Russian-owned. Given their track record for unsportsmanlike exclusion, I think that lends suspicion to their “testosterone test”.

          • Shapillon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            2 months ago

            Competing by sex is pretty pointless.

            It is true that the average male human has some physical advantages on the average female human.

            Otoh the variability amongst people of the same sex is wider than that average difference. This effect is reinforced in professional sports because it tends to attract outliers.

            And then for trans athletes, most of that difference gets smoothed by a well adjusted HRT applied fpr a few years.

            • CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              We have divided a bunch of sports into “open class” and “women only” (some sports use “men only” and “women only”) because the difference between men and women is large enough that

              1. Women would be unable to compete at a professional level otherwise

              2. A lot of sports would be directly dangerous for women (see: contact sports without weight classes)

              Nobody argues that it’s pointless to have weight classes. How is that different from having classes based on (a proxy for) levels of testosterone?

              One of the best male 1500m runners today, Jacob Ingebritsen, beat the current women’s WR by almost 4 seconds when he was 15 years old. Women can be amazing athletes, and watching women compete at the top level is amazing. That’s why we need a class where they can compete, just like we need weight classes in many sports.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      127·
      2 months ago

      Oh no, trans women have totally ruined Olympic women’s boxing forever. And it used to be your favorite sport too!

      Edit: By the way, I just looked up the story. At no point did she claim she was hit harder than she was ever punched before. I have no idea why you’re telling such a lie (okay, maybe I do know why).

      https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-boxing-gender-4b6eb881cce9c34484d30c68ad979127

      It sounds like she got the boxing equivalent of the twisties in gymnastics if anything. She certainly doesn’t suggest it is because her opponent is trans.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Who is to say that woman isn’t a huge raging transphobe and tries to turn this into a thing to attack trans with?

      Sure seems that way.